Economic Development, Real Estate and Housing
Overview
For 25 years, Meyers Nave has been helping public agencies achieve economic development and community enhancement through redevelopment. In the past year, we have assisted many of these agencies transition in response to Assembly Bill X1 26.
Today, our attorneys are guiding public agencies in the post-redevelopment world—helping them identify and use available and appropriate legal means to achieve goals previously accomplished through redevelopment agencies.
Key to our delivery is our full-service model—the very basis of our firm’s founding. By providing legal services in virtually any area that touches public entities, our model has proved vital in helping public agencies tackle multiple issues simultaneously, including:
- Property acquisition
- Remediation of hazardous materials
- Disposition, leasing and development
- Creative financing
- CEQA compliance
- Procurement, competitive bid and prevailing wage requirements
Our approach to post-redevelopment strikes a balance between proactive efforts to protect the programs, projects and resources formerly undertaken by redevelopment agencies and in-depth analysis on how clients can pursue economic development through community enhancement programs and projects.
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Publications
- League of California Cities Appoints Three Meyers Nave Attorneys to Serve on its Post-Redevelopment Working Group
- Meyers Nave Welcomes Back Warner
- Court Upholds Redevelopment Dissolution Bill, Strikes Voluntary Payment Bill
- Daily Journal Recognizes Four Meyers Nave Principals as “Top 25 Municipal Lawyers” in California for 2011
- City of South San Francisco Receives Helen Putnam Award for Excellence in Planning and Environmental Quality
- Appellate Court Finds that Inclusionary Housing Requirement is Not an Exaction, Therefore Challenge is Time-Barred
- Proposed Legislation to Address Governor's Proposal to Disestablish Redevelopment Agencies
- Meyers Nave Helps Public Entities Respond to the Governor’s Proposed Elimination of Redevelopment Agencies
- Community Facilities District Financing Triggers Prevailing Wage Requirements For All Public Improvements of a Project
- Court Rejects Bid to Halt Eminent Domain Sale of Rancho Cordova Site
- Meyers Nave Joins the City of Union City at the Ribbon Cutting of its BART Project
- Redevelopment Plan Invalidated Due to Insufficient Blight Findings
- Redevelopment Agency SERAF Payment Requirements Upheld; CRA Will Appeal
- Appellate Court Holds Redevelopment Agencies May Use Low/Mod Funds for any Authorized Purpose Provided there is a Nexus with Affordable Housing; Affirms Article 34 Exemption
- Court of Appeal Holds That County Must Include ERAF Revenue in Calculating Pass-Through Payments By Redevelopment Agency to School District
- Court of Appeal Publishes Opinion in Hotly Debated Community Redevelopment Case
- California Court of Appeal Holds Redevelopment Agencies Have Broad Authority Under State Community Redevelopment Law to Impose Design and Development Controls to Implement Redevelopment Plans
- Final Decision in PR/JSM Rivara LLC v. Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
- Post-Kelo Reforms: Far From 'Phony'
- Inclusionary Housing Ordinances that Apply to Rental Projects that Do Not Receive Public Agency Financial Assistance or that Do Not Include Density Bonus Units or Incentives May Need to Be Revised
- Jump-starting Stalled Redevelopment Projects
- Pittsburg Continues Legal Fight to Recoup Money on Downtown Project
- Maximizing Your Stimulus Part IV: HUD Issues NOFA for Second Round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Maximizing Your Stimulus Part IV: HUD Issues NOFA for Second Round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Multidisciplinary Meyers Nave Team Contributes to Landmark Redevelopment Project
- Save Tara Case Provides Guidance on Agreements for Development Contingent Upon Subsequent CEQA Review
- Federal Housing Bill - Resources for Local Government CalHFA Community Stabilization Home Loan Program
- State Authorizes Local Governments to Impose $1,000 Fines for Failure to Maintain Property
- Superior Court's Final Decision in Concerned Citizens of Santa Rosa v. City of Santa Rosa and the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Rosa
- Redevelopment Reporting Requirements; New Legislation
- California Supreme Court Grants Review in Save Tara v. City of West Hollywood
- Meyers Nave Attorneys Win Appeal for City of Dinuba
- Meyers Nave Announces Newly Expanded Los Angeles Office
- Meyers Nave Negotiates the First Agreement Under California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004
- California Supreme Court Revises Stay of Redevelopment Dissolution and “Opt-In” Legislation
- Next Steps for Redevelopment Agencies After Passage of Dissolution and "Pay to Play" Assembly Bills
Client Successes
- City of Union City
- City and Redevelopment Agency of South San Francisco
- City of San Leandro
- City of Petaluma and Petaluma Redevelopment Agency
- City of Inglewood
- City of Pittsburg and Pittsburg Redevelopment Agency
- City of Dublin
- City of Reno and Reno Redevelopment Agency
- City and Redevelopment Agency of San Leandro